Rie Moore

Biography

Known to audiences for her richly creative programming and evocative artistry at the piano, Rie Moore has pursued prerecorded programs and recitals that feature innovative themes. In 2020, she received an Independent Artist Award from Maryland State Arts Council for “promise and innovation” of her program As if heard from within. In 2021, she premiered her first prerecorded program for solo piano Beyond Darkness, sponsored by the St. Mary’s County Arts Council, to invite listeners to imagine what may lie beyond darkness, and appeared as one of the speakers at the TEDxGreatMills event to talk about a new approach to concert programming. She was also awarded a Creativity Grant by the Maryland State Arts Council for an initiative to launch Project Decaying to invite community members to create artworks that express beauty in what is decaying and to premiere Decaying, a prerecorded program for piano and violin on the same theme in January 2022. In 2022 Rie was also invited to perform at PianoTexas International Festival & Academy and performed as one of the thirty-nine competitors at The Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition. In 2023 she was selected to perform as one of the eight performing artists featured in the Maryland Arts Directory Triennial Exhibition (a juried exhibition) organized by the Maryland State Arts Council and Maryland Art Place. Most recently, she was invited to join the teacher program and perform at PianoTexas International Festival & Academy again in 2024 and was invited to perform as part of Benny C. Morgan Concert Series at College of Southern Maryland in 2025.

After earning her Bachelor of Arts in International Politics, Economics and Business from Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan, Rie Moore worked for global corporations, including Microsoft, Starbucks, and Nissan Motor in Tokyo as a marketing and communications professional prior to her move to Maryland in 2007. Her wide-ranging work experience in Tokyo includes launching and marketing new products, working in the field of investor relations as an IPO project member, organizing media events, and serving as an interpreter and translator to facilitate communication among Japanese and non-Japanese executives and designers. Inspired by her experience at Piano Festival by the River at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Rie Moore began studying with Brian Ganz, a laureate of the Marguerite Long Jacques Thibaud and the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Piano Competitions, and a member of the piano faculty at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, which eventually led to completing her second bachelor’s degree in music at St. Mary’s College of Maryland in May 2019. She was awarded Alice Fleury Zamanakos and Arthur S. Zamanakos Prize in Music upon graduation. 

She is currently a member of the piano faculty at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and also serves as a collaborative pianist at Ballet Caliente in California, Maryland.